Forza Motorsport
Skip · Other · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $69.99.
- Length
- 36.3h
- Value
- $1.93/hr
- Reviews
- 51% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 73% over the last 30 days against 51% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 1060 or AMD RX 5500 XT or Intel A380, 130 GB of storage. Windows only.
Compete in over 500 cars on 30 world-famous tracks – now featuring the legendary Fujimi Kaido! Play the new 20th Anniversary Tour and obtain special rewards.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $27.99, set in August 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 24 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. On the same math DRIFT CE ($8.99, scores 26) and Dakar 18 ($2.99, scores 22) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 36.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Players rate it 51 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 73 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 106 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 16 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 20 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 1,172 reviews written there were positive, against 51 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 36.3 hours; clearing it takes 151, which is 4.2 times the campaign.
It came out 3 years ago and 506 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 36.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
506 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Given the negative reviews, I was very apprehensive about this purchase. What a huge mistake it would have been to miss this title, it's a fantastic racing game that's surprisingly realistic. I absolutely love it and would recommend it all day long. An excellent racing simulator.
Do you want GT7 on PC? This is basically it. It's almost equivalent in terms of the overall experience. it leans toward sim racing, but still has enough arcade elements to make it accessible and fun. I'm not really sure what the other negative review is about, but I personally really, really enjoyed my experience with the game. In fact, I enjoyed this game more than Forza Horizon 6.
Do not waste your money, go get an old Xbox 360 and buy Forza 3. What a shocking game!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Forza Motorsport scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2440510/forza-motorsportThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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